Thanks, David, that fixed the problem.

>Al,
>
>>When I want to use this XML, I tried bringing it in to a cursor with
>>xmltocursor("table.xml","table")
>>...the error said there was an error at row 1 position 1.

XMLTOCURSOR("table.xml","table",512)

Without the 512 flag, XMLTOCURSOR thinks the first parameter contains the XML as a string.